If I had to guess, it might be a gentleman by the name of Tony Brubaker, who was Greg Morris' stunt double on 'Mission: Impossible'. He was one of only a handful of African American stuntmen working in Hollywood at that time.
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If I had to guess, it might be a gentleman by the name of Tony Brubaker, who was Greg Morris' stunt double on 'Mission: Impossible'. He was one of only a handful of African American stuntmen working in Hollywood at that time.
It's really the Watcher in disguise.
Her follow up single, "Bitter Dregs," will remain popular into the 23rd century.
Ricardo.
Dr Chandra in 2010 and that guy in Close Encounters.
"Crimes never happen! What's wrong with you people?"
The Mr Burns part or the Len Lesser part?
A seemingly important clue that seems to go nowhere.
Not as bad as $30,000.
"It's not his MO, ma!"
So Tony works at the hospital or he was a fellow patient? Were they both at a mental hospital at some time in the past?
Like an anti-establishment thing?
That seems odd, somehow, that Greer would arrest somebody for embezzlement. I'd expect some other agency to have jurisdiction. I could be wrong, of course.
Does any of this have anything to do with her being a child star, or is she that popular as a Folk singer to have a life-sized standup available?
This is what makes it sound like they were both in an institution.
Talk about Karma.
Ethel!
That's pretty exciting.
Presumably she objected her Folk singing and vow of poverty?
Not a bad Laura Nyro cover.
Another Laura Nyro song.
It's not easy to cover Donovan.
Any particular motivation for this?
It actually is kind of surprising that they didn't market an album of these songs as a tie in.
That's hilarious. Harry and Sam, twin coroners.
Geez, Ironside, give credit where credit is due.
That's weird. It must have seemed like he was having a psychic vision or something.
Lurch! And that ancient android guy.
I have no idea how this could possibly be.
They probably should have focused on that one. This story seemed like a string of red herrings, irrelevancies, flashbacks of unknown origin that couldn't have affected the investigation, and a resolution out of the blue. And the capsule description seems to have exaggerated the Chief's emotional involvement.
I didn't think so. Too bad.
Oh, okay, now I get it.
Dr Freedman came in saying that her permit expired, so she must have been legal at some point.
Okay, good enough for a motive. But an out-of-town hit man?
Cool outfit.
Yeah, I know. I guess her mother being dead makes it stronger, but it just seemed kind of lackluster.
Oh, yeah, I remember that.
I dig.
I'll bet.
Yes, also pretty likely.
It's oddly catchy. It's also linked in my head to that other Superman song, "It's Not Easy," which is also a goodie.
I found this IMDB page listing stunt actors for Mod Squad, and I see a guy named Ernest Robinson, credited for 33 episodes (by far the most). Turns out he's a Black stuntman with quite a notable career, so he seems like a strong possibility.
This is where I get pedantic and note that the name of that song was actually "Maiden Wine".
Hmm...Ricardo.
Ah, yes...and Dalrymple on Seinfeld.
Len Lesser.
It established that somebody else had used his car, and the matchbook led to the health club and Inch, the guy who did it.
I think it might have been rehab; I wasn't clear on whether he was patient or staff, but patient seems likely. Or would-be patient posing as staff.
As I recall, wanting to put the child star chapter of her life behind her, money and all.
I think he was arresting him as a suspect in light of the embezzlement.
He might have made it, but she was famous for being a child star. The folk singing was a modest way to make a living while staying straight.
A "D'OH!!!" would have been appropriate.Talk about Karma.
Or should it be Ethyl?She had issues with that.
Wanting to see the guy get resolution rather than leaving his daughter in unsolved cases limbo.
Ah, a coroner, too...I hadn't thought of that.That's hilarious. Harry and Sam, twin coroners.
I meant to add a note about that at the end. The first flashback didn't do a good job of setting up where the flashbacks were coming from. The later ones we could deduce were a mind's eye vision of what he was being told in exposition that we were cutting away from. But the first one started while he was still waiting to talk to the other party in the flashback...unless a thoughtless syndication edit was involved.
And the narrator and voice of the Hulk on TIH.
Putting together the pieces of her personality and how she might have acted in a particular situation.I have no idea how this could possibly be.
Perhaps, but he was clearly invested in getting to know the victim better.
The permits were completely authentic except for the signatures.
True.Okay, good enough for a motive. But an out-of-town hit man?
I think that's one of his usual ensembles.
And all in a British accent.
I also meant to note that it's one of those novel cases of a lesser-known comics character being referenced in song (Solomon Grundy).
I think that's a likely match with a catch. It's based on uncredited info supplied by an IMDb contributor; and in this case, there's a gap of credits between mid-Season 3 and mid-Season 5, which is exactly the period where Lucy really started getting my attention. It's possible that he was Williams's double for the entire series but the IMDb contributions about his role are incomplete for whatever reason.
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Oh, leave John Karlen's accent alone! He gave every performance his all! BTW, just a month earlier (November 4, 1972), Karlen delivered another winning performance in "Through a Flame Darkly", a second season episode of the generally tiresome ESP series, The Sixth Sense, the Gary Collins vehicle best remembered for heavily edited episodes being stapled to Rod Serling's Night Gallery syndication package.
Well, that's cool!
True, but I was thinking more about the cigarette butts-- brand, saliva, other forensic stuff.
Okay, fellow rehab patient makes sense, although they didn't do a very good job of diagnosing his deeper pathology.
That could make sense.
Definitely.
She must have been one of those obnoxious stage mothers.
Which is fine, but that capsule description left me expecting more.
Another model from the Clone Factory. There's a Sam in every city.
So kind of the same thing as in the falsely convicted guy episode. I wonder if this will be a regular feature going forward.
Interesting. This may be new information for me. Or I forgot.
Okay, I guess....
But she originally entered the country illegally?
Yes, it's at least the third time that I've noticed it and finally decided to comment.
And that's exactly the part that loops in my head.
That's weird. His history seems well documented otherwise. He was in a lot of familiar productions.
That's exactly where I remember them from.
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The Mod Squad
"Kristie"
Originally aired December 14, 1972
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This is in season, but a week earlier than the ideal timing. As Julie's at Pete's place trying to get him in the holiday spirit, Jerry Schilling (Michael Anderson Jr.), an old friend who served time for involvement in a jewelry exchange theft, drops in to ask Pete to watch his titular little daughter (Debbie Lytton) while he runs an errand. Kristie, who bears a stuffed dog named Fred, references Birdman and The Funky Phantom when citing her TV preferences. Jerry goes to see a man named Gordon (William H. Basset), who addresses Jerry as his brother and takes him to see Kurt Raider (Jed Allan). We learn that Jerry had been tricked into leaving the exchange's door open for their theft; and they think that he's in possession of the jewels and threaten to get rough about it. Jerry makes a break for it in his Bondelli's Nursery truck, but they catch up and a struggle ensues during which Raider, clearly not an expert marksman, shoots both of them, though Jerry gets away in his truck again, to collapse at his own pad. Back at Pete's, hours having passed, he settles Kristie into his loft bed for the night. She tells him that she doesn't say bedtime prayers, having lost faith when her mother died in an auto accident.
Kristie wakes Pete at 6:30 on the morning before Christmas for Bugs Bunny...and while Pete reacts as if this is an unusual hour for him to be up, Linc and Julie soon drop in. Julie reminds Pete of the date, emphasizing that they should make arrangements in case Jerry doesn't return in a timely fashion. Pete gets Jerry's address (where Kristie has only recently moved in with him, so she doesn't know it) from Mr. Bondelli (Buddy Lester), and learns that Jerry was visited by a brother Pete doesn't know about. Pete and Kristie then pick out a tree at a lot in front of a church. The girl tearfully remembers her mother while watching people pray at a manger scene. Afterward Pete goes to Jerry's apartment, passing Raider in the hall and finding the place ransacked with a blood stain on the rug, but no body.
While Gordon is being tended to by his wife, Marion (Jean Hale), Raider visits, and listens in while Gordon tells her that he made up the story of Jerry knowing where the jewels are, and that they're actually in Fred. At a visit to probation officer Daniel S. Wade (Robert Patten), the Mods learn that Jerry had made a couple of friends, one of whom looked enough like him to be his brother. By the time this is over, it's after dark, and Pete's putting Kristie to bed with a reading from the Book of Linus in a more properly decorated apartment. The Mods drop by, having arranged for the captain to visit as Santa; and Pete reads a note left for Santa that Kristie dictated to Julie, in which she asks him to give her toys to needy children, because all she wants is her daddy back. Then Pete gets a call and Kristie overhears as he tells the Mods that a car has been pulled out of the bay with a charred body that's been tentatively identified as Jerry's based on the ID found. Pete comforts the girl before putting her back to bed.
Linc's gotten a call that Gordon is Jerry's half-brother, and usually goes by the name Calder. At the morgue, Pete isn't sure if the body is Jerry's, but notices a ring and insists that Jerry never wore jewelry. Pete and Linc visit Mrs. Calder to question her about her husband's whereabouts while Raider listens from concealment. He then follows their car when they leave. Jerry, having seen in the paper about the body found, makes a surprise visit to Marion wanting answers. Back at Pete's the Mods learn that Kristie slipped out while Julie was preoccupied, and Pete notices that she tore a Nativity picture out of the book he was reading to her, so he and Linc head for the church...while Raider continues to follow. Jerry calls Pete's and gets Julie. Kristie brings Fred to the manger scene to pray, the Mods find her, then Raider pops up with a gun on them wanting the dog. The jewels fall out, Lucy tackles Raider, Real Linc gets in some close-up fighting, then Greer, Julie, and CLE arrive with Jerry. Father and daughter are reunited in front of a manger scene at a church on Christmas Eve. Greer explains to the Mods that Raider planted Jerry's wallet on Gordon's body to flush Jerry out.
Greer: Well, if I'm gonna be playing Santa, I'd better go home, fatten up, and get some sleep.
"O Come, All Ye Faithful" plays as Greer and the Mods exchange Merry Christmases.
In the coda, Bob the Discount Saint Nick hands out gifts...
...and Pete gives a personal one to Kristie: a manger scene. The camera slowly pulls out accompanied by a voiceover of Michael Cole doing his Linus speech.
There are some interesting details on IMDb about Michael Cole having described this as his favorite episode in his autobiography, particularly involving his emotional investment because he had a young daughter back home in Wisconsin, which brought him to the verge of tears during one scene.
Alas, I was hoping that they'd have Linc play Santa so we could have gotten some climactic action with Lucy in the suit.
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Ironside
"Cold, Hard Cash"
Originally aired December 14, 1972
Wiki said:
Ex-con Vic Barry (Wally Taylor), now working at a nursery, calls the Chief to tip him off that he's gotten a job offer to drive in a "snatch" job with Owen Riggs for a Chicago mobster named Gus Hadley. Ed volunteers to sub for him.
As Ed dresses for the part, the others test his cover story. Riggs (Kaz Garas) drops by Vic's place ahead of schedule to find a cast on his arm and insists that "Matson" come with him, not giving him a chance to call in, so Vic does it for him and the others scramble for a lead on Riggs's whereabouts. Riggs has Ed take them in a Jeep to a wooded area outside a girls' school where teenage Stephanie Tucker (Kay Lenz) is riding. Ed protests when Riggs roughly chloroforms her; all while a teacher, Mrs. Melling (Diana Webster), watches from afar with interest but lack of concern, though she apparently calls it in. (This must have just been bad acting/directing, as no inside angle emerged.) The Chief is alerted to the kidnapping by Lt. Reese, who informs him that the girl's mother is actress Lorraine Sims (Barbara Rush), who goes to the school with her business manager, Walter Conover (Richard Anderson), and, after questioning Melling, insists that Ironside not interfere with her plan to pay the ransom.
Sheriff Matt Gibson (Jeff Morris), being in on the plan, has Deputy Wilson (Vince Howard) stop the van that Riggs and Ed have switched to via a roadblock, ostensibly looking for a runaway boy. He has Ed get out, nonverbally clues him in, and plants a tracking device in the wheel well. The kidnappers proceed to the cabin of Gus Hadley (David McLean), where Stephanie is kept bound and blindfolded. Hadley chastises Riggs for packing heat on the job, insisting that the girl not be harmed. Ed tries to take his leave, but Hadley insists that he stay while the heat's on.
Wilson and Reese use a receiver to narrow their search down to a mountainous area of cabins, and Reese arranges to get a mountain bike to explore, noting that it won't attract attention because the neighborhood is thick with them. Stephanie's father, Bobby Tucker (Jack Kelly), arrives at the school, having split with his wife over drinking problems that he's resolved but his ex has picked up. Tucker is resentful of Conover's influence on Lorraine, which has included shielding the family from his attempts at maintaining contact. Tucker insists that the police be involved, to no avail. Fran turns up that Hadley has a mob associate in South America who's in need of $800,000, which is suspiciously close to the ransom of $850,000--which, it turns out, is also very close to the paycheck of the contract that Conover recently arranged for Sims after a long career slump.
Back at the cabin, Hadley tests Ed's cover with misleading questions, and Ed passes. Inside, Riggs makes a creepy pass at the teenage victim, forcing her to dance with him. In a struggle, her blindfold comes off, causing Riggs to argue that she has to be killed, though Hadley refuses and indicates that payment for this job is "guaranteed," implying that it's an inside job. Ed talks to Stephanie in private and tries to reassure her without sacrificing his cover. The kidnappers call in with ransom drop details, and Conover insists, against Tucker's protests, on stealthing it out in his car, which the police won't know to follow.
Hadley proceeds to the rendezvous with Conover--who, to absolutely nobody's surprise, is the inside man; but the Chief is staking the location out, having followed Conover's vehicle with a tracking device, and, after getting word that Reese has found the hideout, has the sheriff arrest Hadley as soon as Conover leaves. At the cabin, Riggs pulls a knife to deal with the girl and is fought off by ESD, who finishes the job just as Reese comes in. Riggs is arrested and Stephanie gives Ed a hug. The Chief returns to the school ahead of Conover to expose him in front of Lorraine and Bobby, and Stephanie is reunited with the father she hasn't seen in at least a decade.
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To the hilt.
The Chief gave a little speech or two along the way about the importance of not letting the victim be forgotten, which I didn't transcribe.
But in this case, they didn't depict him as sitting in the scenes. And those scenes were more clearly narrated into.
Definitely forgot. It was routinely discussed in The Other Thread.Interesting. This may be new information for me. Or I forgot.
Apparently.
Clark Kent, now there was a gent...And that's exactly the part that loops in my head.
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Also, I'm pleased to report that MeTV Toons and MeTV+ are living in perfect harmony on Frndly.
"Let's take a vacation."
So Jerry is innocent, but served time for the crime-- did the other two serve time as well? How long was he in for?
Wow.
Another guy who's not a criminal mastermind. "She got run over by some guy in a yellow Charger."
Maybe they come by to haul him out of bed every morning.
This is the second episode in a row about loss of religious faith, and I'm fairly sure there was at least one other before that. There must be religion among the writing staff.
So was Fred a gift from Gordon or did he somehow plant them when nobody was looking?
Is this guy supposed to be a career criminal or organized crime figure or what? He seems to be the most generic bad guy ever.
To what questions, exactly? Everything's been covered, I think. And what happened to his gunshot wound? I think they just forgot about it.
As if on cue....
Because we really needed that loose end explained to us.
Ah, well, it was intended to be a nice, simple Christmas episode, and so it was.
Yeah, that's really what it was all about, which is fine.
I was sure that Greer was going to show up in the climax as Santa.
She was an accomplice, but she got away with it, like those various killers on Hawaii Five-0.
Oscar! Also Steve on Perry Mason.
Interesting.
Bart Maverick?
They got joint custody of the booze.
So Hadley needs to pay off South America, comes to Riggs who he has authority over, Riggs cooks up the kidnapping scheme and approaches Conover-- presumably the extra $50,000 is Conovor's payday, but it's kind of convenient that he was able to come up with that contract. It seems like somebody at the studio must be involved.
Kind of interesting that they passed on the trope of Ed getting exposed.
Also interesting that they portray the Chicago mobster as having some limits on how far he'll go, despite him being the one in need of the cash.
This was pretty much Ed's episode.
This would have been a better ending for the Mod Squad episode. It was kind of a bummer that the mom was dead for Christmas.
Okay, I see what they were going for.
Maybe they were experimenting. It will be interesting to see if it comes up again.
Sam! I mean Harry!
That happens. Too much data, too little brain.
Yeah, that's what I like about the song. In fact, I think the only reason I know about it is that someone sent me a link after I wrote an essay with a similar theme for the University of Richmond.
That's good. I had a feeling that would be the case after seeing a couple of videos on YouTube.
The other two weren't caught. I wanna say he served six months, but I'm not looking it up.
If they got into that, I didn't catch it.
About why they faked his death.
Wasted opportunity to see Santa do a flying drop kick.I was sure that Greer was going to show up in the climax as Santa.
I guess so.
It was per his arrangement with Conover. No Conover, no cash.
Most of the people who ever lived are dead on Christmas.
Or the importance of doing it because somebody had to see that the nobodies got justice.
Okay, that's not bad. I wondered if those guys had been waiting years for their jewelry.
Especially if he laid a finger aside of his nose first.
This is why we don't let you write heartwarming holiday specials.
A very good theme, just not what I was expecting from the capsule description.
I just saw that Martin Mull has passed away. I watch a lot of the game shows on Pluto TV, and they included a Hollywood Squares channel. I have been watching a lot of that show the last few months and Mull was a fixture, especially in the last two seasons. He was pretty funny on that show.
RIP
RIP
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The Mod Squad
"Sanctuary"
Originally aired December 21, 1972
Julie, holding a cat, sneaks into the file room at Vlahos Enterprises, sets off an alarm, and goes into hiding. When Alexander Vlahos (former boy king Victor Buono) and a couple of armed goons go in to check, they find the cat and assume that it triggered the klaxon. After they reset the alarm and leave, Julie gets to work on photographing files with a spy camera. Vlahos & company soon question the circumstances and go looking for that secretary, but she slips out with the help of the other Mods dressed as maintenance men and the trio get away in the Charger. Afterward at City Hall, Greer objects when special prosecuting attorney Steve Anderson (former warp drive inventor and substitute road buddy Glenn Corbett) insists that Julie needs to testify in a closed hearing, potentially putting her in greater danger, but she agrees. Outside, Greer is trying to catch up with her when a small business van hits her. (Pete is on the scene...coincidence?)
Greer suspects a contract despite the driver coming up clean as a whistle. The receiving doctor indicates that Julie will be fine with some rest, but Anderson arranges to feign more serious treatment so that Julie can be kept in protective custody at the hospital, with the other Mods posing as staff (DRINK!) to keep an eye on her. Julie meets her new doctor, Dr. Weston (Hal England); and Pete soon has to bust out of being trapped in a laundry room with an open steam pipe. While Greer is arranging to move up Julie's testimony to that day to get the heat off of her, Weston has her put on a medication. Pete and Linc wheel Julie out to an ambulance where she's to be taken to the hearing, but Julie starts to show symptoms of being doped up. When she has trouble testifying, Anderson has to ask for a 24-hour postponement. Greer makes a rendezvous with the van driver, who's contacted him wanting to turn state's evidence, but finds him murdered in the trunk of his car.
To absolutely nobody's surprise, we learn that Weston is drugging Julie under the orders of Vlahos, who has the doctor under his thumb after bailing him out of serious financial trouble. Weston objects to being asked to continue Julie's treatments for the postponed testimony, but Vlahos blackmails him with the revelation of an incriminating tape. At the hospital, the doctor dismisses Anderson and the Mods from Julie's room with a claim that she's developed serious complications; then proceeds to medicate her again. With Weston's permission, Anderson arranges for the investigative committee to convene in Julie's room the next day; then Weston sneaks into Julie's room after hours to give her more. When the committee convenes, drugged-up Julie has greater trouble with the details than before, and they agree to adjourn for two weeks until she's better. Looking for Weston, Pete and Linc learn that Weston's not even on the staff (DRINK!), and that Julie's supposed to be under the care of a Dr. Morgan. In a real twist, Anderson meets with Weston to report that the committee's being more cooperative then expected, and he tells the protesting doctor that they'll have to kill the girl...indicating along the way that he's in a similar situation with the Syndicate.
The Mods locate Dr. Morgan (uncredited Byron Morrow), who's never heard of Weston and explains that he hadn't been going to Julie's room because he was told that it was a police matter and she didn't require treatment. The Mods go to Anderson with what they've learned, and he takes over guarding Julie while they go down to meet with Greer, who's questioning a pharmacist (Joe Breen) who's just been assaulted by a morphine thief matching Weston's description. As Weston tries to give Julie a fatal dosage, she puts up a struggle against him and Anderson, giving Greer and the Mods enough time to get there. Lucy is only needed briefly for some tackling...
In the coda, a recovered Julie is leaving the hospital and insists on testifying despite Greer indicating that it's not as necessary now. The Mods load into Greer's car and are driven off the hospital lot.
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Ironside
"Shadow Soldiers"
Originally aired December 21, 1972
Attending a conference with Ed in Merry Ol', the Chief learns that Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard Williams (Ivor Barry) is retiring; that Supt. Lon Davis (Gerald S. Peters) is up to take his place; and that Supt. Colin Faber would be next in line due to seniority (top-billed guest Lloyd Bochner--suspicious on three counts).
Ed is outside when a man who's been waiting in a car (Donald Moffat in a red beard) guns down Davis, who's heading for his own wheels, with a submachine gun. Ed gets a good look at the assassin, but is unable to find him in the book of mugshots, so he helps put together a composite sketch. Faber has a terrorist named Rourke (uncredited John Orchard) brought in to identify the man in the sketch, but he refuses to cooperate. Then the assassin's car is found, with the body of another man--speculated to be the driver--in the trunk (this week's non-festive theme).
The man is identified as a Mr. Brandon, and the Chiefs talk to his landlady, Mrs. Nagal (uncredited Nora Marlowe, whose attempt at an Irish-ish accent is spotty), learning that Brandon was talking about a job with a stamp dealer to whom he sold the most valuable set in his collection, as well as with the man in the composite sketch. They also find a large amount of cash in an envelope, despite Brandon owing back rent. They proceed to the dealer, Klaus Muller (Stefan Gierasch), who doesn't want to show them the stamps; has a darkroom that has caused both the stamps and the money, which was more than they were worth, to smell of acetic acid; and later evades police tails to get in a cab with the assassin. Back at the Yard, the Chief and Ed are alarmed to find that Faber has dropped the investigation of Muller, claiming that he's come up clean, and has returned his attention to Rourke.
Chatting up an Inspector McArtle (Hedley Mattingly), Ed learns that Faber's had the Muller file classified. Ironside turns to a Lt. Morris (Michael Bell) at the embassy for some good old-fashioned corn-fed American intelligence, learning that Muller was a suspected Soviet agent operating in Vienna at the same time as Faber; and that Faber had been in a near-fatal accident there. Also drawing upon Frisco resources via a call to Fran and Mark, two sets of Faber's prints from different periods are compared with the help of a fax machine, and it's found that they don't match. Along the way, somebody takes a shot at Ed through the hotel window, and Faber goes to confront Muller about it. The Chief pays a visit to Faber, accusing him of being a sleeper agent who took the real Faber's place early in his career and rose through the ranks. Faber admits to this, indicating that his real name is Titanovich, but tells Robert that he's come to love England and his life there, and was hoping he'd been forgotten until he received a call at his home in an earlier scene, when the Chief was being hosted by Faber and his wife, Ellen (June Whitley Taylor).
The Chief shares with Faber his deduction that Muller's smuggling intel via microdots he's placing on his stamps. The Chief returns to Muller's shop to keep him occupied while Ed and Faber sneak to his vault and disable a destruct mechanism. Faber, having already outed himself to the sitting Chief Super, takes Muller into custody. The Chief and Ed are then present as Faber takes a call from the assassin, Hartz, arranging to have the Americans at his home for a hit as a lure to trap Hartz. When Hartz makes his move, the Chief turns off the lights with a remote, shots are exchanged in the dark, and Hartz goes down a flight of stairs but lives. Faber, however, appears to be dead...but it turns out that this is a ruse so that Titanovich can be set up in a third identity as a sheep rancher in Australia, though this means leaving his wife for her own safety.
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The Mod Squad
"Sanctuary"
Originally aired December 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Julie, holding a cat, sneaks into the file room at Vlahos Enterprises, sets off an alarm, and goes into hiding. When Alexander Vlahos (former boy king Victor Buono) and a couple of armed goons go in to check, they find the cat and assume that it triggered the klaxon. After they reset the alarm and leave, Julie gets to work on photographing files with a spy camera. Vlahos & company soon question the circumstances and go looking for that secretary, but she slips out with the help of the other Mods dressed as maintenance men and the trio get away in the Charger. Afterward at City Hall, Greer objects when special prosecuting attorney Steve Anderson (former warp drive inventor and substitute road buddy Glenn Corbett) insists that Julie needs to testify in a closed hearing, potentially putting her in greater danger, but she agrees. Outside, Greer is trying to catch up with her when a small business van hits her. (Pete is on the scene...coincidence?)
Greer suspects a contract despite the driver coming up clean as a whistle. The receiving doctor indicates that Julie will be fine with some rest, but Anderson arranges to feign more serious treatment so that Julie can be kept in protective custody at the hospital, with the other Mods posing as staff (DRINK!) to keep an eye on her. Julie meets her new doctor, Dr. Weston (Hal England); and Pete soon has to bust out of being trapped in a laundry room with an open steam pipe. While Greer is arranging to move up Julie's testimony to that day to get the heat off of her, Weston has her put on a medication. Pete and Linc wheel Julie out to an ambulance where she's to be taken to the hearing, but Julie starts to show symptoms of being doped up. When she has trouble testifying, Anderson has to ask for a 24-hour postponement. Greer makes a rendezvous with the van driver, who's contacted him wanting to turn state's evidence, but finds him murdered in the trunk of his car.
To absolutely nobody's surprise, we learn that Weston is drugging Julie under the orders of Vlahos, who has the doctor under his thumb after bailing him out of serious financial trouble. Weston objects to being asked to continue Julie's treatments for the postponed testimony, but Vlahos blackmails him with the revelation of an incriminating tape. At the hospital, the doctor dismisses Anderson and the Mods from Julie's room with a claim that she's developed serious complications; then proceeds to medicate her again. With Weston's permission, Anderson arranges for the investigative committee to convene in Julie's room the next day; then Weston sneaks into Julie's room after hours to give her more. When the committee convenes, drugged-up Julie has greater trouble with the details than before, and they agree to adjourn for two weeks until she's better. Looking for Weston, Pete and Linc learn that Weston's not even on the staff (DRINK!), and that Julie's supposed to be under the care of a Dr. Morgan. In a real twist, Anderson meets with Weston to report that the committee's being more cooperative then expected, and he tells the protesting doctor that they'll have to kill the girl...indicating along the way that he's in a similar situation with the Syndicate.
The Mods locate Dr. Morgan (uncredited Byron Morrow), who's never heard of Weston and explains that he hadn't been going to Julie's room because he was told that it was a police matter and she didn't require treatment. The Mods go to Anderson with what they've learned, and he takes over guarding Julie while they go down to meet with Greer, who's questioning a pharmacist (Joe Breen) who's just been assaulted by a morphine thief matching Weston's description. As Weston tries to give Julie a fatal dosage, she puts up a struggle against him and Anderson, giving Greer and the Mods enough time to get there. Lucy is only needed briefly for some tackling...
In the coda, a recovered Julie is leaving the hospital and insists on testifying despite Greer indicating that it's not as necessary now. The Mods load into Greer's car and are driven off the hospital lot.
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Ironside
"Shadow Soldiers"
Originally aired December 21, 1972
Wiki said:
Attending a conference with Ed in Merry Ol', the Chief learns that Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard Williams (Ivor Barry) is retiring; that Supt. Lon Davis (Gerald S. Peters) is up to take his place; and that Supt. Colin Faber would be next in line due to seniority (top-billed guest Lloyd Bochner--suspicious on three counts).
Ed is outside when a man who's been waiting in a car (Donald Moffat in a red beard) guns down Davis, who's heading for his own wheels, with a submachine gun. Ed gets a good look at the assassin, but is unable to find him in the book of mugshots, so he helps put together a composite sketch. Faber has a terrorist named Rourke (uncredited John Orchard) brought in to identify the man in the sketch, but he refuses to cooperate. Then the assassin's car is found, with the body of another man--speculated to be the driver--in the trunk (this week's non-festive theme).
The man is identified as a Mr. Brandon, and the Chiefs talk to his landlady, Mrs. Nagal (uncredited Nora Marlowe, whose attempt at an Irish-ish accent is spotty), learning that Brandon was talking about a job with a stamp dealer to whom he sold the most valuable set in his collection, as well as with the man in the composite sketch. They also find a large amount of cash in an envelope, despite Brandon owing back rent. They proceed to the dealer, Klaus Muller (Stefan Gierasch), who doesn't want to show them the stamps; has a darkroom that has caused both the stamps and the money, which was more than they were worth, to smell of acetic acid; and later evades police tails to get in a cab with the assassin. Back at the Yard, the Chief and Ed are alarmed to find that Faber has dropped the investigation of Muller, claiming that he's come up clean, and has returned his attention to Rourke.
Chatting up an Inspector McArtle (Hedley Mattingly), Ed learns that Faber's had the Muller file classified. Ironside turns to a Lt. Morris (Michael Bell) at the embassy for some good old-fashioned corn-fed American intelligence, learning that Muller was a suspected Soviet agent operating in Vienna at the same time as Faber; and that Faber had been in a near-fatal accident there. Also drawing upon Frisco resources via a call to Fran and Mark, two sets of Faber's prints from different periods are compared with the help of a fax machine, and it's found that they don't match. Along the way, somebody takes a shot at Ed through the hotel window, and Faber goes to confront Muller about it. The Chief pays a visit to Faber, accusing him of being a sleeper agent who took the real Faber's place early in his career and rose through the ranks. Faber admits to this, indicating that his real name is Titanovich, but tells Robert that he's come to love England and his life there, and was hoping he'd been forgotten until he received a call at his home in an earlier scene, when the Chief was being hosted by Faber and his wife, Ellen (June Whitley Taylor).
The Chief shares with Faber his deduction that Muller's smuggling intel via microdots he's placing on his stamps. The Chief returns to Muller's shop to keep him occupied while Ed and Faber sneak to his vault and disable a destruct mechanism. Faber, having already outed himself to the sitting Chief Super, takes Muller into custody. The Chief and Ed are then present as Faber takes a call from the assassin, Hartz, arranging to have the Americans at his home for a hit as a lure to trap Hartz. When Hartz makes his move, the Chief turns off the lights with a remote, shots are exchanged in the dark, and Hartz goes down a flight of stairs but lives. Faber, however, appears to be dead...but it turns out that this is a ruse so that Titanovich can be set up in a third identity as a sheep rancher in Australia, though this means leaving his wife for her own safety.
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This is why we don't let you write heartwarming holiday specials.
Well, those things are very spotty both in writing and in sporting much more blatant inaccuracies. It's usually a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils and maybe still having to edit it a bit.
Looks like he won't be coming along until he appears on a 1976 episode of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
I knew it! She's secretly a Bond villain.
Or she works for the IMF. Would this be admissible evidence?
He has the mutant power to project his bad driving skills.
Aren't there better places to keep someone in protective custody?
Who are they trying to kill?
"And no, I don't need any test results any more than I need an ID or credentialing!"
"Look, the little hairs on my arm are daffodils!"
He also never finished med school.
That tape must be really incriminating.
Let's give the writers a break and assume that Weston just wants to get caught at this point.
She does better when she's drugged.
"Why not? Did something happen?"
I still question whether illegally obtained evidence would do any good. And if it was valid, then it was already in the hands of law enforcement, so why bother to kill Julie? King Tut should have been putting his efforts into leaving the country or something.
....Londinium.
Logan's Rem, when beardless.
Not very subtle for a Brit. Must be a foreigner.
Why are fingerprints never compared until there's a murder or something?
Yeah, that's kinda random and stupid.
Okay, that's a cool twist. Or couple of twists.
From where is the Intel coming? It seems like we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
That's a bit on the silly side.
"Please, no, just kill me!"
Did she know he was a sleeper? She's probably okay with this.
Yeah, some of them are pretty bad.
RIP, Martin Mull. America 2-Night was pretty funny for a bit. I still use his line, "That was darn close to funny."
50 Years Ago This Week
June 30
July 1
July 2
July 3
July 4
July 5
July 6
Hitting the stands July 2--a milestone character debuts in the last panel of The Incredible Hulk #180 (cover date Oct.):
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
New on the chart:
"Time for Livin'," Sly & The Family Stone
(#32 US; #10 R&B)
"Wildwood Weed," Jim Stafford
(#7 US; #29 AC; #57 Country)
"I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You," Donny & Marie Osmond
(#4 US; #1 AC; #17 Country; #2 UK)
"(You're) Having My Baby," Paul Anka w/ Odia Coates
(#1 US the weeks of Aug. 24 through Sept. 7, 1974; #5 AC; #6 UK)
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June 30
- Alberta Williams King, 69, African-American musician and church leader and the mother of the late Martin Luther King Jr., was shot to death by Marcus Wayne Chenault while she was playing the organ at services in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. Chennault, an African-American religious zealot who was apparently planning to kill Dr. King's father, also killed a 69-year-old deacon, Edward Boykin.
July 1
- On "M-day", road signs in Australia changed from imperial measures in miles to adjusted metric equivalents in kilometers.
- Isabel Perón became the first woman to be designated the president of a nation, being sworn in as President of Argentina after the death of her husband, Juan Perón, at the age of 78.
- Members of the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) walked out on strike after the deadline passed for the 26 owners of the teams of the National Football League (NFL) declined to meet their demands for an increase in base salary and lifting of restrictions on collective bargaining and reserve clauses in contracts.
- The Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park opened to the public in the Philadelphia area, based in Jackson, New Jersey, near Trenton.
July 2
- American news reporters encountered Soviet censorship while trying to transmit stories from Moscow about dissidence within the U.S.S.R.; the three American networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) had jointly spent $281,000 for transmissions by satellite, and ABC was the first victim as it was sending film of an interview with dissident Soviet nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov from a Moscow TV studio. The Communist government had warned the U.S. networks to stop sending "anti-Soviet" stories from the Soviet-American summit, with one commenting "Our technicians get insulted."
July 3
- The Threshold Test Ban Treaty was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of Richard Nixon's visit to Moscow.
[T-minus 37 days and counting.]
- The Soviet Union successfully launched Soyuz 14 with cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich, and docked with the Salyut 3 space station. It would return to Earth on July 19. U.S. intelligence concluded that Soyuz 14 had been on a military mission to use make the Salyut 2 station an orbiting reconnaissance platform, because the cosmonauts had sent and received coded messages with ground control on a special channel.
July 4
- The USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer, ostensibly a deep-sea drillship, arrived at the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii to begin an attempt to recover the wreckage of the Soviet submarine K-129, which sank on March 8, 1968. The top-secret recovery mission, Project Azorian, was financed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and was able to reach the sub in waters 16,500 feet (5,000 m) deep and recover a portion of the vessel. The project's existence was revealed seven months later.
- Singers Barry White and Glodean James married.
July 5
- Construction began in Austria of the 13.976-kilometre (8.684 mi) long Arlberg Road Tunnel (Arlberg Strassentunnel) through the Alps and would last for more than four years. At the time of the tunnel's opening on December 1, 1978, between St Anton am Arlberg in Tyrol and Langen am Arlberg in Voralberg, it would be the longest road tunnel in the world.
July 6
- Jimmy Connors of the U.S. won the men's singles championship at Wimbledon, defeating Ken Rosewall in straight sets, 6–1, 6–1, 6–4. The win came one day after his fiancée, Chris Evert of the U.S., had won the women's singles title over Olga Morozova of the Soviet Union, 6–0, 6–4. Connors and Evert were scheduled to be married in November 1974, but would break up before the marriage took place.
Hitting the stands July 2--a milestone character debuts in the last panel of The Incredible Hulk #180 (cover date Oct.):
Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:
Leaving the chart:
- "I'm in Love," Aretha Franklin (13 weeks)
- "I Won't Last a Day Without You," Carpenters (12 weeks)
- "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)," MFSB feat. The Three Degrees (18 weeks)
New on the chart:
"Time for Livin'," Sly & The Family Stone
(#32 US; #10 R&B)
"Wildwood Weed," Jim Stafford
(#7 US; #29 AC; #57 Country)
"I'm Leaving It (All) Up to You," Donny & Marie Osmond
(#4 US; #1 AC; #17 Country; #2 UK)
"(You're) Having My Baby," Paul Anka w/ Odia Coates
(#1 US the weeks of Aug. 24 through Sept. 7, 1974; #5 AC; #6 UK)
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Vlahos didn't need to hire a killer, he just needed to hire Pete to drive around the block.
It's an inside-job evil plot.
The girl Pete was supposed to be protecting. This was played as if it might have been an accident, but it made everyone paranoid.Who are they trying to kill?
IKR?She does better when she's drugged.
They needed testimony from Julie with memorized details to back it up.
I think maybe he was supposed to be Irish. Or another Soviet mole.
Right to privacy?Why are fingerprints never compared until there's a murder or something?
Yeah, Hartz should have burst into flame when he hit the bottom.That's a bit on the silly side.
SURREY MYSTIC AND MANAGER TRAGEDY
'Nevertheless' from "Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" 6/1/1967
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He risked showing up behind the scenes of his own funeral to talk to her one last time, so presumably she learned.Did she know he was a sleeper? She's probably okay with this.
That would make her two years younger than I am now when her son was assassinated. Weird to realize stuff like that.
Conformists!
The hell you say!
Strange days indeed.
"Privet, comrades. Here is coded message to make Americans think this is military mission. Is good joke, no?"
Yup, I bought this one off the stands, as I was a regular reader of Incredible Hulk. I hope Len Wein and Herb Trimpe were able to negotiate some nice little dividend from the billions of dollars this character has earned.
Sigh. So many good songs.
I'm pretty sure I've never heard this one before. It's okay.
An amusing novelty number. I think you've said that you don't like Jim Stafford.
Not a big Donny and Marie fan. Good song, though.
Strong nostalgia factor with this one.
So arbitrary, though. Did they expect Julie to wander into the laundry room? In fact, what was Pete doing in the laundry room?
Yeah, but the evidence still existed. His energy would have been better spent on escape rather than getting in deeper.
I'm going with Irish. Donald Moffat in a red beard must have looked like a Leprechaun.
The right to privacy doesn't exist in Modworld.
But this guy was an Intelligence agent. Wouldn't the very purpose of taking his fingerprints periodically to be to make sure he hasn't been replaced?Now that would have been exciting.
No post cards for this guy, though.SURREY MYSTIC AND MANAGER TRAGEDY
'Nevertheless' from "Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" 6/1/1967
She must have been very stunned.
I have this as part of Sly Stone's 'Greatest Hits'. The drop off in song writing between 'Riot' and this is noticeable.
I have this as part of my Dr. Demento collection.
Can't let this one go without posting this.
Post-50th Anniversary Viewing
The Mod Squad
"Run, Lincoln, Run"
Originally aired January 4, 1973
IMDb said:
The cabby, Herb Henderson (James A. Watson Jr.), is leaving Jacey's Bar-B-Q while trying to evade the described baddies, Krause and Marty (Elliott Street--who continues to impress me with his versatility, even as that guest actor pipeline becomes more crowded--and Taylor Lacher), when Linc stops there and chats him up. After Herb makes an excuse and goes his way, Linc sits down at the counter and co-proprietor Mrs. Milton (June Dayton) drops plates as she finds her husband, Chuck (Justin Smith), lying bloodied behind it. The loan sharks catch up with Herb as he's getting home, where Krause (per IMDb--I didn't catch the name being dropped) questions him for details about Linc, concerned that he might talk. Herb's persuaded to cooperate when they threaten to turn their attention to his young wife, Ruth Henderson (Emily Yancy--If she married Elliott, she'd be...). Linc has already called CLE and given a description by the time Greer arrives at Jacey's. The captain proceeds to Herb's, but the sharks, staking the place out, call Herb to threaten him not to talk. After Greer leaves, Ruth asks Herb about what's going on. Meanwhile, Chuck Milton dies, which the thugs' boss, Edmund Glendon of Westland Loan (Stefan Gierasch), chews them out about as they were supposed to persuade him to serve a key role in an impending heist.
Linc goes to Herb's to confront him about what he knows, but Herb doesn't want to get involved, feeling that he paid his dues by taking a leg injury in the service. Greer turns up that Chuck did time for work as a burglar alarm expert, and learns from Mrs. Milton that he got the money to start the business from a shady loan. Making a later visit to Ruth at her invitation, Linc learns that Herb took out a loan to pay for doctor bills he racked up trying to fix his leg...which is established to be an irrational obsession, as it was restored to 99% efficiency and shouldn't prevent him from pursuing his dream of playing pro basketball. Linc also learns of the two men she's seen stalking Herb. Linc's parking in an assigned garage spot--presumably at his place--when he's ambushed by the hoods, who initially go after him with a crowbar and blackjack. Linc's getting the better of them (mainly Williams, partly Lucy) when the guns come out and he beats a retreat, bloodying his hand smashing a fire alarm to send them screeching away.
Looking into Westland, Greer learns that Glendon's assistant, Freddie Moss, is also a safecracker, and speculates that Glendon's using the loans as leverage to assemble talent for a bank job, which may include recruiting Herb as a driver. (This is the guy who dismissed the idea of a getaway vehicle for a fur theft as a wild theory.) Pete volunteers to take a crash course in electronics to pose as a substitute alarm man. (There's a funny bit of business here where the budget-conscious captain instructs Julie, in establishing her and Pete's cover, to rent not an "apartment" [hands raised above his head], but an "apartment" [hands lowered].) Linc shows Herb his bandaged hand and goes along with agreeing not to talk when Herb offers to get the heat off of him. Pete and Julie show up at Westland as an ex-con with alarm expertise who's having trouble finding a job and his wife, looking for a loan. Glendon and Moss (Nick Lewis) subsequently visit their cover pad to have Pete sign a larger-than-asked-for loan. Back at Westland, Glendon goes over the details of the heist with Herb, which involves hitting an outdated bank before it's demolished to build a shopping center. Anticipating a fat paycheck, Herb buys a dress for Ruth, but they get into a fight when she asks where the money's coming from, which Linc walks into the end of.
Glendon and Moss return to the cover pad threatening to withdraw the loan and dropping off plans for the unidentified bank. Moss later returns without notice to pick up Pete, not giving him a chance to leave a message for Julie. Linc goes to Herb's to prevent him from going, but the hoods show up for him with guns and, seeing an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone, force Linc to come with them. Glendon, Moss, and Pete dress as uniformed CLE, complete with squad car, to handle the alarm part. When Krause makes Herb stop the cab in an alley so he and Linc can get out, Herb guns it and runs into an area under repair, causing Krause to take a dive out of his open door that results in unconsciousness. Linc calls in the location of the bank to Greer, but they're unable to free the cab, so they run back to Herb's place, where Marty is holding Ruth. At the bank, Glendon and Moss open the door to find that the alarm's still working, and Pete dives for cover as they take shots at him, followed promptly by Greer and real squad cars swooping in to nab them. Greer briefly takes in the sight of Pete in uniform.
Linc calls Ruth from a pay phone to clue her in to the plan, which involves Lucy diving through the glass front door to surprise Marty while Herb gets to Ruth through the back.
In the coda, Herb and Ruth head into a basketball arena where pro trials are being held, and the Mods drive away in the Charger.
Ironside
"Ollinger's Last Case"
Originally aired January 4, 1973
IMDb said:
The team members arrive at the Cave to find the Chief in bed sick. He tells them of a friend of his who needs help. Ed heads to Grant's Bay to find Ted Ollinger--a retired cop with whom the Chief had ridden in his first patrol car--at the pier that he owns. A youthful service station proprietor, Sam Madden (Joseph Kaufmann), tries to lead him elsewhere; while real estate agent Bill Eaton (Albert Salmi) gives him directions, then calls Deputy Larry Davis (Mills Watson), who proceeds to the pier to assess the situation and discourage Ed from proceeding.
Ed disregards this advice to the accompaniment of "Where Can You Go?" (written by Paich & Paich, sung by Jim Haas) and finds the pier abandoned, so he looks around the single-room cabin adjoining Ollinger's fishing and skiff rental shop. As Ed's leaving the pier, he finds that the deputy has ticketed him. (There was a No Parking sign.) A business card leads Ed to D.A. candidate Adam Bronson (Kenny Mars), who's eating at a diner run by Bert Martin (William Bramley), as is Eaton. Ed's presence makes the waitress, Sally Pearson (Loretta Swit), visibly nervous. Everyone plays dumb, but Ed notices everyone's conspicuously organized odd behavior and questions Martin about it. As Ed's leaving, somebody tries to run over him with a station wagon. (Ooh, is Pete crossing over?)
Ed returns to the pier cabin with his suitcase. In a confusing edit, we cut to a body lying face-down in the water, and Ed's calling the Chief to express his condolences, having implicitly found the body. Ed goes to Sheriff Pat Heally (Warren Kemmerling) to tell him that Ted called claiming to have found incriminating evidence of a conspiracy; though the sheriff tries to play the death off as an accident, and Ollinger's head injury of having happened after he fell in. Ed learns with the sheriff's help that Ted refused to sell the pier to make way for a shoreline factory, and his ally in this matter was local heiress Stella Grant, Bronson's wife, who died in a car crash. During Ed's absence, the deputy puts additional No Trespassing measures into effect at the pier and hands him his suitcase. Mark does some offscreen investigation in Vegas, where Ms. Grant and Bill Eaton both were prior to her death, and learns of a public argument involving a loan. Ed returns to the diner to find Hot Lips alone and questions her, confronting her with a lipstick that he found in Ted's cabin, but she denies involvement while emphatically reinforcing everyone else's story. As Ed's leaving, he finds that his brakes don't work and almost collides with a truck.
With the deputy hovering over, the mechanic diagnoses a mechanical failure; and Ed takes a silent interest in the wreck of Ms. Grant's car being in the garage. Ed questions Bronson about the possibility that her brakes were sabotaged, but he insists that it was faulty shocks. An autopsy performed in Frisco determines that Ollinger was asphyxiated above water, and finds blue lint that Ed ties in with a pillow in his cabin. Ed returns to the pier via water, and after helping himself to some clothes a la David Banner, is starting to look around again when a wetsuited figure who followed him up knocks him out, drags him out, and pushes him in the water. Ed comes to, climbs out, and rushes into the cabin for some binoculars to get a look at a boat that's getting away.
The boat having been Eaton's, as well as his car used in the hit and run attempt, Ed has him brought to the sheriff's office. When Bronson comes in to support him, Ed tells him about Eaton having followed his wife to Vegas to try to stop her from getting a loan to help Ted, which surprises and angers Bronson. Needing hard evidence to press charges against Eaton, Ed heads to the diner and tells Sally that Ted left her the pier in his will. She admits to having an affair with him, but confesses that she was just using the older man. When Ed presses about who killed Ted, her answer is, "We all did." A flashback ensues of most of the townsfolk of interest (notably including the deputy, but not the sheriff) storming into Ollinger's cabin while Sally's in his bed and shoving him around, which results in him falling and hitting his head on a dresser. Bronson arrives late and inspects the body, declaring Ollinger to be dead. Back in the present, Sally indicates that the group left the body there, but somebody apparently got cold feet and went back to dispose of it.
Ed takes Bronson to the pier to help him find Ted's notes, with the incentive of finding incriminating evidence against Eaton. While they're looking, the Chief calls Ed to tell him of some more offscreen investigation by Mark. After hanging up, Ed produces a notebook and says that it indicates that Bronson was seen in the car with Stella and that he killed her because she was seeing a lawyer about a divorce, which would cost him her family fortune. He then accuses Bronson of being the only one who knew that Ollinger was still alive and going back to off him with the pillow. Bronson pulls a gun, but Ed promptly overpowers him. The Sheriff pops in to take Bronson into custody, and it turns out that the notebook Ed seemed to be reading only contains an unrelated hand-drawn map.
Item of note: The 50th anniversary comic that I'm currently working on is a 100-page Super Spectacular issue of The Flash that includes a reprint of a 1964 Green Lantern story, in which the opening crime involves a pair of thieves walking out onto the street, their arms loaded with furs...no getaway vehicle in sight.
It's worth noting that it was his gradual development in other hands that made him so popular.
Sly's last Top 40 hit; an unremarkable echo of the group at their peak.
He's okay. I got the last two, I'm planning to get this.
It's a little bit country, but is it even a tiny bit rock 'n' roll? The previous hit cover by Dale & Grace was the #1 song in the country the week that JFK was killed.
I previously got Anka's Top 10 hits from the '50s, but drew the line at delving into this little comeback era. I dunno...
Laundry?
Too many bonks on the head fighting the Dynamic Duo.
I'm going with Irish. Donald Moffat in a red beard must have looked like a Leprechaun.
Or just in case he needed to be identified later.The right to privacy doesn't exist in Modworld.
Would that count as a vote from Johnny Fever that I should pass on it?
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Classic scene from a classic show.
This is a weird scene. The sharks beat up Chuck and dropped him on the floor? Herb witnessed this, but his presence is just a coincidence, even though he's also a customer of the sharks? Herb tried to get away, even though the sharks know him and know where he lives? And somehow this all happened without Herb's wife noticing?
Talk about what? He's just some random guy who walked in after the pummelling was done.
A gang member, further complicating the plot.
These are unrelated topics, Herb.
An interesting character detail that doesn't really affect the plot much.
He's a Conspiracy Theorist, not a Plain-As-The-Nose-On-Your-Face Theorist.
Another interesting detail. Is the implication that it's easier to hit because it's outdated?
Glendon's invested a lot in this plan. I wonder which one of them obtained the squad car, or if there are more conspirators out there.
You go, Herb!
"Not so Mod now, are we?"
Leaving Linc without a scratch.
Not a bad plot, but they should have delved into Herb's issues more to make his little act of heroism and ultimate personal progress more compelling.
I wonder if Raymond Burr was really sick. It seems odd that they would use an old friend of the Chief's to give Ed a story.
Aww, just like Malloy and Reed. It's also odd that we only get to know such a significant character from the Chief's past as a corpse.
A frequent flyer on the character actor plane.
I feel like the musical montages should be saved for special occasions.
Valid.
It's unusual to see her in a guest-starring role.
Must be Pete from the past if it's the Woody.
Do we actually see the Chief? It's so weird that a person who's so important to him is basically a prop. There should have been some real drama attached to this character.
If the whole town is in on it, why not just surround him with pitchforks or something?
Okay, that's so silly it's cool, but he really should have made sure Ed was dead.
Aha!
Very reminiscent of the guy-falsely-imprisoned episode.
Okay, so all these guys wanted the factory and Ollinger didn't. But what was the conspiracy and what was the evidence that Ollinger had? The main problem with this episode, though, is that they wasted a good opportunity for a Chief-centric story and basically threw away a vital influence from his past.
So now we have a little insight into Greer's reading habits as a younger man.
That's very true.
Ask a silly question....
He's got more than just two personalities....
Begosh and begorrah!
I don't know, seems dubious.
The Hallelulah Tabernacle Choir version, anyway.
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70 Years Ago This Month
July 1
July 4
July 5
July 7
July 9
July 13
July 15
Also on July 15, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel, premieres in Houston.
July 16
July 17
July 19
July 20
July 21
On July 28, On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, and introducing Eva Marie Saint, premieres in New York.
July 29
July 30
July 31
Also released in July:
"Evil Is Goin' On," Howlin' Wolf
(B-side of "Baby How Long?")
"Oh What a Dream," Ruth Brown
(#1 R&B)
Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki page for the month, as well as the year in film, music, television, and comics. Sections separated from timeline entries are mine.
Don't forget the torches!
Now that I think of it, they should've just burned the pier and made it look like an accident...could've killed multiple birds with one stone.
ETA: It is done.
July 1
- Japan's National Security Board is reorganized as the Defense Agency, and the Japan Self-Defense Forces are established.
- The United States officially begins using the international unit of the nautical mile, equal to 6,076.11549 ft. or 1,852 metres.
July 4
- Food rationing in Great Britain ends with the lifting of restrictions on sale and purchase of meat, 14 years after it began early in World War II and nearly a decade after the war's end.
July 5
- The first actual news bulletin, News and Newsreel, aired on BBC Television, replacing Television Newsreel.
- Elvis Presley has his first commercial recording session at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He sings "That's All Right (Mama)" and "Blue Moon of Kentucky," released as his first single on July 19, naming the performers as Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill. The songs were originally sung by Arthur Crudup in 1946 and Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1947, respectively.
July 7
- Dewey Phillips of WHBQ (AM) in Memphis is the first radio announcer to broadcast a recording of Elvis Presley. The track "That's All Right" (later pressed as Sun 209) was recorded two days earlier. Upon hearing that his debut record was about to be aired, Presley hid in a movie theater, thinking he would become a laughingstock.
(#112 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])
July 9
- After two years' study of problems that might be encountered in human spaceflight, a joint group--NACA, Air Force, and Navy--meets in Washington, D.C., to discuss the need for a hypersonic research vehicle and to decide on the type of aircraft that could attain these objectives. The NACA proposal was accepted in December 1954, and a formal memorandum of understanding was signed to initiate the X-15 project. Technical direction of the project was assigned to the NACA.
July 13
- In Charles M. Schulz' Peanuts, Pig-Pen makes his debut.
July 15
- The maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80 (or Dash 80), prototype of the Boeing 707 series.
Also on July 15, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel, premieres in Houston.
July 16
- A partial lunar eclipse takes place.
July 17
- Died: Machine Gun Kelly (George Kelly Barnes), 59, US gangster (heart attack)
July 19
- Release of Elvis Presley's first single, "That's All Right," by Sun Records in the United States.
July 20
- The 1954 Geneva Conference ends after nearly two months, resulting in the partition of Vietnam.
July 21
- The Geneva Conference sends French forces to the south, and Vietnamese forces to the north, of a ceasefire line, and calls for elections to decide the government for all of Vietnam by July 1956. Failure to abide by the terms of the agreement leads to the establishment de facto of regimes of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War.
On July 28, On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, and introducing Eva Marie Saint, premieres in New York.
July 29
- Tropical Storm Barbara makes landfall near Vermilion Bay, Louisiana, United States, causing some flooding and some damage to the local rice crop.
July 30
- The Television Act 1954 receives Royal Assent, enabling the creation of a commercial television service in the UK.
July 31
- Italian expedition to K2: Italian mountaineers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni become the first two people to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world.
Also released in July:
"Evil Is Goin' On," Howlin' Wolf
(B-side of "Baby How Long?")
"Oh What a Dream," Ruth Brown
(#1 R&B)
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Might wanna fix the quote tags for posterity. It looks like you're continuing to reply to Darren.
Herb saw them coming and tried to slip away unnoticed. Herb's wife wasn't there. Chuck's was in back somewhere.
He saw them leaving and could identify them.
And unfortunately, the difference is too common.He's a Conspiracy Theorist, not a Plain-As-The-Nose-On-Your-Face Theorist.
Exactly. The money was scheduled to be transferred to a location with much more modern security measures.
I should note that obtaining not just police uniforms, but even squad cars, is a bit too common in ModWorld.
Greer actually gave a sort of amused-looking head-nod.
That's episodic TV for ya.
They are overdoing them. Clearly Marty Paich wanted to make a mark on the show.I feel like the musical montages should be saved for special occasions.
She popped up a time or two immediately prior to M*A*S*H, but this is noteworthy because it falls during M*A*S*H's first season.
It was not.Must be Pete from the past if it's the Woody.
Yes. Burr wasn't absent from the episode, just on the sidelines.
If the whole town is in on it, why not just surround him with pitchforks or something?
Don't forget the torches!Now that I think of it, they should've just burned the pier and made it look like an accident...could've killed multiple birds with one stone.
Reminded me of The Green Hornet.
This one was used more conventionally, narrated into in place of exposition.
The conspiracy was to cover up the townsfolks' role in his death (as they were led to believe that they'd killed him). They didn't know what evidence Ollinger may have had, but Ed snooping around got him on the right track, even though he didn't find notes that spelled it all out.
I was wanting to connect him with the Green Lantern Corps, but wasn't finding inspiration.So now we have a little insight into Greer's reading habits as a younger man.
Covers have to be maintained. And other linens.Ask a silly question....
...comrade?
At this point, I think I may be leaning on the side of going ahead and getting it...Heaven help me.The Hallelulah Tabernacle Choir version, anyway.
ETA: It is done.
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What's even funnier is something I found years later when I purchased the 'San Francisco Nuggets' box set. When Johnny is announcing the previous song 'How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away?' that's an actual song from the band Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, that was a regional hit in the Bay Area about ten years earlier.
That means somebody on the WKRP writing staff knew of this song and included a made-up easy listening version of it as joke. I hope Dan Hicks got some work and/or residuals from this.
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